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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-14859: exiv2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-14859: exiv2 security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/29/2017
Created
12/28/2019
Added
12/27/2019
Modified
12/27/2019

Description

An Invalid memory address dereference was discovered in Exiv2::StringValueBase::read in value.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-exiv2-libs

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